an open mind : about canadian law & ethics

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My Choice for CLawBies 2012 Best New Blog? The Law Society of Upper Canada’s Treasurer’s Blog. Not because the idea of a Treasurer’s blog is “cool.” (Do we even want that? No one outside of Ontario know he is actually the President of the Law Society, and we cling on to the misnomer to prevent the leader from being described with such epithets.) Not because the Law Society under Tom Conway has embraced social media. (He’s still a one-man-band. We’ll wait for the chorus of “lifer” benchers to sign up on Twitter.) Not because it reaches out to a new…

Hidden behind The Guardian‘s provocative “Three Little Pigs” ad is a subtext on the role of public opinion on the judicial process. (la version française suit) It starts, of course, where the children’s story ended. The Big Bad Wolf was boiled alive, but then the layers of the story unwrap into a fractured tale of a “just” crime, and perhaps more than one.